Hello, I am using a custom SortComparator implementation where I need to override a method in order to handle Null values:
@Override public ScoreDocComparator newComparator (final IndexReader reader, final String fieldname) throws IOException { final String field = fieldname.intern(); final Comparable[] cachedValues = FieldCache.DEFAULT.getCustom (reader, field, CollatorBasedComparator.this); return new ScoreDocComparator() { public int compare (ScoreDoc i, ScoreDoc j) { Comparable ci= cachedValues[i.doc]; Comparable cj= cachedValues[j.doc]; int returnValue =0; if (ci == null) returnValue = (cj==null) ? 0 : 1; else if (cj == null) returnValue = -1; // else returnValue= ci.compareTo(cj); return returnValue; } public Comparable sortValue (ScoreDoc i) { return cachedValues[i.doc]; } public int sortType(){ return org.apache.lucene.search.SortField.CUSTOM; } }; } Is there anything wrong about the code? Because I get the exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldDocSortedHitQueue.lessThan(FieldDocSortedHitQueue.java:164) at org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue.upHeap(PriorityQueue.java:139) at org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue.put(PriorityQueue.java:53) at org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue.insertWithOverflow(PriorityQueue.java:78) at org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue.insert(PriorityQueue.java:63) at org.apache.lucene.search.MultiSearcher.search(MultiSearcher.java:241) at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:100) at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.hitDoc(Hits.java:206) at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.doc(Hits.java:155) I am using lucene 2.3.1. Please help me. Thank you in advance, Nina -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NullPointerException-in-FieldDocSortedHitQueue.lessThan-with-custom-SortComparator-tp21702845p21702845.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org